@TheMoment, Inc. and Epicentric Partner to Deliver Personalized Content and Dynamic Pricing Services to Internet Exchanges.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden & SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 7, 2000 @TheMoment and Epicentric to Jointly Market One-To-One Content and Pricing Information to B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Marketplaces @TheMoment, Inc., the premier enabler of dynamic commerce, and Epicentric Inc., the leading provider of next-generation e-commerce portals, today entered into a strategic agreement to jointly market their respective business-to-business (B2B) solutions to Net market makers. This partnership delivers market-enabling solutions for building and deploying customized, integrated Net marketplaces to facilitate B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. . Utilizing the combined offerings from @TheMoment and Epicentric, Net market makers are armed with powerful tools to build Net marketplaces. Market operators will have the content and applications available to deliver complete Net marketplaces featuring email, discussion, site wide polling and best-of-breed Internet service offerings through Epicentric Portal Server (1) A network server that deploys portal services to a public Web site or internal intranet. See portal. (2) An application that is used to develop, deliver and maintain a Web portal. and an industry leading real-time price discovery and demand generation solution through the @TheMoment Dynamic Trading Suite. By combining these approaches, both companies enable Net market makers to offer personalized content and applications to marketplace participants along with constantly updated, real-time pricing. The @TheMoment Dynamic Trading Suite delivers a flexible trading platform to Net market makers that enables a wide range of transaction types such as auctions (forward/reverse), negotiated exchange (multi-parameter, electronic RFP (Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system. 1. (business) RFP - Request for Proposal. 2. ), live bid/ask exchange (Nasdaq-style) and derivatives exchange. Epicentric Portal Server provides customized portal See personal portal. solutions for companies executing a rapid Internet business strategy. Epicentric's Java-based technology is a highly scaleable and customizable solution that integrates content, commerce engines, applications and databases to quickly produce custom portal See personal portal. networks that enables e-commerce. "Net marketplaces require the flexibility and tools to deliver a personalized experience to marketplace participants," said Itzik Goldberger, vice president of marketing and business development, @TheMoment, Inc. "Epicentric is a leader in providing integrated and personalized portal See personal portal. solutions that enable Internet e-commerce. Together, @TheMoment and Epicentric will offer Net market makers the front and backend solutions to produce branded, customizable and highly scalable Net marketplaces." "@TheMoment delivers a complete and flexible solution to power dynamic commerce Net marketplaces," said Kathleen Hayes Kathleen Hays is an economist and financial reporter for Bloomberg Television. She was formerly a reporter on CNBC's Squawk Box and various CNNfn programming before shuffling over to Bloomberg. , vice president of business development at Epicentric. "With the rapid growth of the e-commerce market, customers need to stay in front of their competition by implementing flexible solution that will grow with their company and business needs, our goal is to provide our joint Net marketplace customers with the content and applications to build customized portal networks." About Epicentric, Inc. Epicentric, Inc. is the leading provider of next generation portals and portal networks that enable enterprise and dot.com companies to quickly launch fully integrated and personalized solutions that power the Internet relationships driving e-commerce. Epicentric's portal network solution enables any end user to create, customize and publish an enterprise class portal directly from a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Founded in 1998, Epicentric, Inc. has provided portal solutions for customers such as Altra Energy Technologies, Inc., Autodesk, ChemConnect, Cofix, eDaycare, General Electric, Jguru, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. , Mucho.com, SCom, Unilink, and Valleynet. Epicentric, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Austin, Chicago, and Washington D.C. International headquarters located in Atlanta with offices in Germany and Paris. Investors include Bowman Capital Management, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ; Putnam Investments; Capital Research and Management Company; Chase H&Q's Access Technology Partners, L.P.; J.P. Morgan; Sandler Capital Management; US Bancorp Piper Jaffray; Autodesk; Dain Rauscher Wessels; Essex Investment Management Company, LLC. For more information visit the company's website at www.epicentric.com About @TheMoment, Inc. @TheMoment, Inc. is the premier enabler of dynamic commerce. @TheMoment enables Net market makers to utilize a variety of dynamic pricing models including auctions, negotiated, "live" bid/ask and derivatives exchanges. @TheMoment's comprehensive offering is delivered via a hosted model allowing B2B exchanges to speed their time to market, reduce costs and focus on domain expertise. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., @TheMoment is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reuters Greenhouse Fund, TIBCO Software, Tarrant Venture Partners, Comdisco Ventures, and other strategic investors. Additional company information is available at www.themoment.com. @TheMoment and the @TheMoment logo are trademarks of @TheMoment, Inc. 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